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• Dealers mix Modern furniture with Old Masters in New York

  30-07-2017 23:00
  The New York-based Old Masters dealer Nicholas Hall, who previously served as the international chairman of Christies Old Masters and 19th-century department, is now collaborating with the Parisian mid-century design gallerist Franois Laffanour. The pair are showing Modern furniture alongside European Master paintings and sculpture in the top two floors of a townhouse just step away from the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattans Upper East Side.
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• Simon Richardson obituary

  30-07-2017 18:52
  My friend Simon Richardson, who has died aged 58 after suffering from a heart attack, was an artist, craftsman and boatbuilder. At the time of his death he was restoring his boat Glala, one of the Dunkirk little ships.Simon was born in Hammersmith, west London, to Joy (nee Savage) and Martin Richardson, an architect. Following their parents’ divorce, Simon and his younger sister, Sarah, attended the progressive Frensham Heights school in Farnham, Surrey. Continue reading...
  
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• Edinburgh art festival review – the dark side of Robert Burns

  30-07-2017 09:00
  Various venues, Edinburgh
  A Pablo Bronstein folly, Rabbie in ruins and a fond Māori farewell are among this year’s standouts, while Inverleith House is sorely missed…Robert Burns stands tall, a white marble hero dominating the great hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. He holds a scroll – as if Burns used parchment for his poems – and his plaid has become a classical toga. An ideal man, or so John Flaxman’s famous statue would have it b
  
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